“It’s the life of an actor, you have dry spells,” Katie says in DuJour interview

Aug 21, 2014 10:01 GMT  ·  By
Katie Holmes explains career hiatus as a “dry spell” when good role offers just stopped coming her way
   Katie Holmes explains career hiatus as a “dry spell” when good role offers just stopped coming her way

After “Batman Begins” and until just recently, Katie Holmes put her acting career on the backburner, focusing more on being the perfect wife for ex-husband Tom Cruise and a good mother to their daughter Suri. She is now back in theaters with “The Giver” and she is ready to explain her hiatus.

Rumor has it that, when she started dating Tom, Katie lost a good chunk of control over her own life, which obviously included her career as well, because, after all, she was not the bigger star in the couple: Tom was.

They had a baby and, after a while, were married in Italy in a gorgeous ceremony. To the public, they appeared to be the perfect family: and Tom was hell-bent on keeping it that way, so he (allegedly) barred her from doing any more, major movies.

This came at a time when she had just starred as Bruce Wayne’s love interest in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins,” the first installment in a trilogy that – we know today – is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed superhero franchises ever.

In other words, Katie chose or was told to leave the ship before it had even sailed: the worst career choice she’s made to date. If you believe the rumors online, it’s all down on Tom because he was the one to “prohibit” her from pursuing her acting dreams full time.

If you ask Katie though, she’ll tell you that this kind of things do happen, which is to say Tom really had nothing to do with it let alone call the shots on her career.

“It's the life of an actor. We don't really have a lot of choice in the matter,” she tells DuJour of her extended hiatus. “You have dry spells, and then you have times when there is a lot of opportunity.”

It sounds as if she’s saying that offers for interesting roles just stopped coming, which we know can’t be true because, when she dropped out of the “Dark Knight” trilogy, Nolan had to cast Maggie Gyllenhaal in her stead. “The Dark Knight,” the second installment, is the best of the three and also the most popular.

That aside, Katie says that, now that she’s back, she’s not going anywhere, not if she can help it.

“Even early on, when I was a young actor and all of a sudden people knew who I was, my dad told me, ‘Don't let that change how you live your life.’ I've always sort of approached it that way. You have to continue to do the things you want to do and not let outside forces dictate,” she tells DuJour.

“I think I've gotten more comfortable with acting over time. Early on, I could never get out of my head... I was afraid that I was going to get fired... But the more projects you do, the older you get, the more life experience you get, you start to understand storytelling better. So you're a little bit more confident going in. You're not afraid of getting fired: You just want to contribute,” she continues.

“The Giver,” though boasting a stellar cast that also includes Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep (and even Taylor Swift), opened in the US on August 15 but failed to perform as expected. Katie should not rush to tell the media that she’s “back” because she’s yet to prove she’s “back” at the box office.